Poverty Herbert Simon, the Nobel Prize–winning economist and cognitive scientist, put it neatly decades ago: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
Over-informed Being over-informed is a thing. We have too much information in our lives that we can never process.
Failure Science has failed us. We still don’t know much about anything, despite having so much data/information.
Consequence The main consequence of not being informed is that you’d discover hot water over and over again.